Tag: United States
Washington activists launch ‘Climate Countdown’ to push lawmakers for urgent action
“We, as a society and as a whole, have to respond to the climate crisis.”
United Kingdom to ban ivory trade
More than 20,000 African elephants die every year to feed the ivory trade.
Found in Cuba: The American dream (and nightmare)
Putting Trump in perspective by going offshore.
Making America mediocre again
As conditions in the U.S. deteriorate, the world will continue to suffer the consequences of U.S. military force – but without the mitigating influences of U.S. foreign aid and diplomacy.
No more holiday gifts for repressive regimes
The U.S. is selling weapons to a country that's killing a child every 10 minutes. That has to stop.
Starving Yemeni children, bloated U.S. weaponsmakers
It’s clear why U.S. weaponsmakers want to keep selling weapons to the Saudi regime. For them, it is all about profits.
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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.